Legal Opinion
Claudio K. Norita Manuel Mangarero Lawrence M. Camacho v. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 5, 2003No. 02-16292PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal by employees who want to collect overtime from their government employer is remarkable only because it presents once again the question whether we must decide a complex jurisdictional question first, or can we “fast forward” to the merits, which could be quickly disp osed of with an unpublished memorandum citing clearly established circuit precedent as the district court did.
The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (“CNMI”) seeks a decision on sovereign immunity, the jurisdictional question, so it will not have to respond in future overtime pay cases.…
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